.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 249 118
Rank change year-on-year -61 -131 +28
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 400 469 1,837
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.60% 1.24% 2.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.60% 5.61% 11.35%
Number of salaries quoted 365 389 1,759
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,496 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,143 8,361 16,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.63% 22.10% 21.51%
Number of salaries quoted 5,439 5,975 13,630
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,300 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,001
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 21 March 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 21 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -59 113 £55,000 +6.39% 46
London -47 93 £80,000 - 66
North West -26 64 £55,000 - 24
South East -42 63 £60,000 +14.29% 66
Midlands -20 59 £65,000 +23.81% 29
East Midlands -22 45 £65,000 +23.81% 18
South West -16 39 £55,000 -24.14% 18
Yorkshire -54 26 £41,250 -17.50% 14
East of England -15 25 £85,000 +70.00% 30
North East -13 23 £60,000 +33.33% 9
West Midlands -27 14 £60,000 +4.35% 11
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (2.00%) IIS
2 7 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.00%) CMS
4 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.25%) Kentico
4 1 (0.25%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) ION Anvil
1 1 (0.25%) Magento
1 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 236 (59.00%) Azure
2 87 (21.75%) AWS
3 64 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
4 50 (12.50%) Serverless
5 41 (10.25%) SaaS
6 35 (8.75%) GitHub
7 30 (7.50%) Power Platform
8 24 (6.00%) Azure Logic Apps
9 22 (5.50%) Azure Functions
9 22 (5.50%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (4.25%) Azure AKS
11 16 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
12 15 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (3.50%) Amazon S3
13 14 (3.50%) AWS Step Functions
14 13 (3.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (3.25%) Amazon EventBridge
14 13 (3.25%) Amazon SQS
14 13 (3.25%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (3.25%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.25%) Internet
2 2 (0.50%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.25%) AMQP
3 1 (0.25%) HTTP
3 1 (0.25%) Modbus
3 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (38.50%) SQL Server
2 49 (12.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 37 (9.25%) MongoDB
4 32 (8.00%) NoSQL
5 26 (6.50%) Power BI
6 24 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (4.00%) MySQL
8 14 (3.50%) Relational Database
9 13 (3.25%) DynamoDB
10 12 (3.00%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.00%) Redis
12 2 (0.50%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.50%) NonStop SQL
13 1 (0.25%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.25%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
13 1 (0.25%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 52 (13.00%) Git
2 9 (2.25%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (1.00%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.00%) JIRA
5 3 (0.75%) NUnit
5 3 (0.75%) Vite
5 3 (0.75%) webpack
6 2 (0.50%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.50%) MSTest
7 1 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.25%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.25%) Selenium
7 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 52 (13.00%) Finance
2 44 (11.00%) Social Skills
3 17 (4.25%) Law
4 15 (3.75%) Games
5 13 (3.25%) Public Sector
6 10 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.25%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.25%) Banking
7 9 (2.25%) Front Office
8 6 (1.50%) Marketing
9 5 (1.25%) Advertising
9 5 (1.25%) Retail
10 3 (0.75%) Automotive
10 3 (0.75%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.75%) Legal
10 3 (0.75%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.50%) Local Government
11 2 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 276 (69.00%) Developer
2 134 (33.50%) .NET Developer
3 111 (27.75%) Senior
4 87 (21.75%) Software Developer
5 70 (17.50%) C# Developer
6 66 (16.50%) Senior Developer
7 52 (13.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 51 (12.75%) Software Engineer
9 50 (12.50%) Lead
10 40 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
11 28 (7.00%) .NET Software Engineer
12 27 (6.75%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 26 (6.50%) Senior Software Engineer
14 25 (6.25%) Lead Developer
14 25 (6.25%) Senior Software Developer
15 23 (5.75%) Azure Engineer
15 23 (5.75%) React Developer
16 21 (5.25%) Applications Developer
17 19 (4.75%) Senior .NET Developer
18 18 (4.50%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 400 (100.00%) .NET
2 134 (33.50%) ASP.NET
3 101 (25.25%) React
4 86 (21.50%) .NET Framework
5 61 (15.25%) RESTful
6 56 (14.00%) HTML
7 55 (13.75%) AngularJS
7 55 (13.75%) Blazor
7 55 (13.75%) CSS
8 54 (13.50%) ASP.NET Core
9 53 (13.25%) Entity Framework
10 36 (9.00%) Vue
11 32 (8.00%) Node.js
11 32 (8.00%) REST
12 30 (7.50%) ASP.NET MVC
12 30 (7.50%) ASP.NET Web API
13 15 (3.75%) HTML5
14 14 (3.50%) Dapper ORM
15 13 (3.25%) AWS CDK
15 13 (3.25%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.25%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 15 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.50%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.00%) AI Agents
7 8 (2.00%) Hedge funds
7 8 (2.00%) Sports Betting
8 6 (1.50%) 3D Graphics
8 6 (1.50%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.00%) Digital TV
10 4 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.00%) Social Network
10 4 (1.00%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.75%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.00%) VMS
2 6 (1.50%) Windows
3 5 (1.25%) Linux
4 1 (0.25%) Android
4 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (35.75%) Full-Stack Development
2 137 (34.25%) Agile
3 114 (28.50%) Software Engineering
4 113 (28.25%) CI/CD
5 99 (24.75%) DevOps
6 89 (22.25%) Microservices
7 69 (17.25%) MVC
8 64 (16.00%) Containerisation
9 58 (14.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 51 (12.75%) SDLC
11 44 (11.00%) Clean Code
12 39 (9.75%) OO
12 39 (9.75%) Problem-Solving
13 36 (9.00%) Collaborative Culture
14 34 (8.50%) Mentoring
15 32 (8.00%) AI
15 32 (8.00%) Analytics
16 30 (7.50%) Infrastructure as Code
17 28 (7.00%) Business Intelligence
17 28 (7.00%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 349 (87.25%) C#
2 167 (41.75%) SQL
3 116 (29.00%) JavaScript
4 55 (13.75%) TypeScript
5 26 (6.50%) PowerShell
6 24 (6.00%) Python
7 12 (3.00%) Kusto Query Language
8 9 (2.25%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.50%) Bash
9 6 (1.50%) Rust
10 5 (1.25%) Java
11 4 (1.00%) Bicep
12 3 (0.75%) Erlang
12 3 (0.75%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.50%) C++
13 2 (0.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 31 (7.75%) Degree
2 14 (3.50%) Security Cleared
3 11 (2.75%) AWS Certification
3 11 (2.75%) AWS Certified Developer
3 11 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (2.25%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.50%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.25%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.50%) QA
2 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.50%) GDPR
2 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.50%) ITGC
2 2 (0.50%) SLA
2 2 (0.50%) WCAG
3 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 88 (22.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 66 (16.50%) Kubernetes
2 32 (8.00%) Terraform
3 2 (0.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 119 (29.75%) Microsoft
2 7 (1.75%) Google
3 5 (1.25%) Adobe
3 5 (1.25%) CrowdStrike
3 5 (1.25%) Facebook
4 2 (0.50%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (0.50%) Databricks
4 2 (0.50%) Foundry
4 2 (0.50%) Salesforce
4 2 (0.50%) YouTube
5 1 (0.25%) Apple
5 1 (0.25%) IBM
5 1 (0.25%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle
5 1 (0.25%) Sony
5 1 (0.25%) WooCommerce
5 1 (0.25%) Yahoo!